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Bash Features

This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the Bash shell (version 5.1, 21 December 2020). The Bash home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/.

This is Edition 5.1, last updated 21 December 2020, of The GNU Bash Reference Manual, for Bash, Version 5.1.

Bash contains features that appear in other popular shells, and some features that only appear in Bash. Some of the shells that Bash has borrowed concepts from are the Bourne Shell (sh), the Korn Shell (ksh), and the C-shell (csh and its successor, tcsh). The following menu breaks the features up into categories, noting which features were inspired by other shells and which are specific to Bash.

This manual is meant as a brief introduction to features found in Bash. The Bash manual page should be used as the definitive reference on shell behavior.

Introduction    An introduction to the shell.
Definitions    Some definitions used in the rest of this manual.
Basic Shell Features    The shell "building blocks".
Shell Builtin Commands    Commands that are a part of the shell.
Shell Variables    Variables used or set by Bash.
Bash Features    Features found only in Bash.
Job Control    What job control is and how Bash allows you to use it.
Command Line Editing    Chapter describing the command line editing features.
Using History Interactively    Command History Expansion
Installing Bash    How to build and install Bash on your system.
Reporting Bugs    How to report bugs in Bash.
Major Differences From The Bourne Shell    A terse list of the differences between Bash and historical versions of /bin/sh.
GNU Free Documentation License    Copying and sharing this documentation.
Indexes    Various indexes for this manual.



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